"Stubbs was primarily a master of all the literary sources of English history between, say, 950 and 1400. In this field he has never been surpassed. How often even now, after searching in vain for a decisive contemporary witness for this or that fact or judgment, do we find that the Bishop, seventy years ago, put it for us in a footnote or an obiter dictum! Few historians would be the worse for reading Stubbs's Introductions and vol. II of the Constitutional History once every four or five years. This intimate knowledge of the period gave Stubbs a background of flesh and blood and mind in all his work. It also made him the master of all those who later broke new ground, and he became as it were father and grandfather of his pupils and pupils' pupils who developed new trends."
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M. D. Knowles, 'Some Trends in Scholarship, 1868–1968, in the Field of Medieval History', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol. 19 (1969), p. 144
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William Stubbs
William Stubbs HonFRSE (21 June 1825 – 22 April 1901) was an English historian and Anglican bishop. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford between 1866 and 1884. He was Bishop of Chester from 1884 to 1889 and Bishop of Oxford from 1889 to 1901.
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